The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES BALDWINAmerican history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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